[Air-L] 4S open panel invitation - Feelings and Doubt in Technoscience

Thu Feb 16 13:17:55 PST 2017

Dear Association of Internet Researchers:

I'd like to invite you to consider submitting a paper abstract to the panel
I'm co-convening for 4S in Boston this year.

Abstracts are due March 1.

It would be great to have critical internet/digital media studies folks
working with STS to speak to the themes of this panel. Rich, timely topic!
We need your good work!

Thanks for your consideration ~

Monika Sengul-Jones & Amanda Menking

*89. Feelings and Doubt in Technoscience*

*Organized by:* Monika Sengul-Jones, UC San Diego; Amanda Menking,
University of Washington

“Post-truth” was the Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year in 2016. This
neologism refers to how appeals to emotion—and even deliberate
deception—influence the ignorance of, or rejection of facts. Feelings, and
subjectivities more generally, have long been a focus of STS work. STS
scholars have sought to mete out the complex relationships between
positionality, affects, and networks that lead to knowledge-making claims
and their role in truth-regimes. This panel seeks to address our
contemporary moment’s crises about “truth” in critical retrospective: to
use the methodological tools of STS to offer a nuanced examination of the
longstanding, complex relationships between feelings and doubts about
technoscience historically and today. This panel invites papers that speak
to a range of topics including: feelings of morality and postcolonialism
(see Schiebinger 2004); the feelings that engender the spread of ignorance
(see Proctor 2016); gender, feelings, and science (Harding 1991; Keller
1983); entanglements of affects and biology (Wilson, 2015); commercial
industries and doubt about scientific consensus (Oreskes and Conway 2011);
and gender and attachments to personal beliefs, such as vaccinations (see
Reich 2014). This panel will facilitate inter-generational conversations
around an important topic harmonized with the theme of 4S in 2017.
“Feelings and Doubt in Technoscience” will interrogate thoughtfully and
reflectively the conference’s call to bring attention to “(in)sensibilities
of contemporary technoscience,” by addressing the technological and
cultural means by which feelings about technoscience lead to it being
ridiculed as nonsense, marshaled to incense, and/or make sense.

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> Dear Professor Charles
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> The below video shows a simple demonstration of basic internet traffic flow
> , which can be helpful:
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> https://youtu.be/PBWhzz_Gn10
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> Thanks and Regards
> Azfar Adib
> Dhaka,Bangladesh
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> On Wednesday, February 15, 2017, Charles Ess <charles.ess at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm teaching an MA-level course on freedom of expression online,
> including
> > somewhat technical analyses of early claims that the internet "interprets
> > censorship as damage and routes around it" through contemporary
> censorship
> > and surveillance efforts, tools for circumventing such efforts (Tor,
> Walid
> > Al-Saqaf's al-kazir tool, and so on), tools for circumventing the
> > circumvention (thank you, NSA ... as well as some approaches to Big Data,
> > etc.)
> > What I'm encountering is, I think, a common issue for which there must
> be a
> > good set of available responses.  That is, many of my students, however
> > gifted, skilled, and well-informed they may be on other matters, seem to
> > lack a basic understanding of how information gets passed along on the
> > internet; what a proxy server is and why / how it works, and so on.
> While
> > I'm not expecting great depths of technical knowledge, it does seem to me
> > that some rudimentary level of knowing how these technologies work is
> > necessary, both for a kind of basic information literacy and certainly
> for
> > more considered analyses of censorship, freedom of expression, etc.
> > So: suggestions for accessible, student-friendly resources that I can
> > recommend and perhaps partly explore with my students that could help
> begin
> > to fill in some of these more technical gaps in their / my knowledge?
> >
> > Many thanks in advance,
> > - charles ess
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Monika Sengul-Jones
Doctoral Candidate
Communication & Science Studies
University of California, San Diego

Visiting Graduate Researcher, 2014-16
Communication
University of Washington, Seattle

www.monikasengul.com
(206) 715-2320